EP1521055A2 - Verfahren und Einrichtung zur Qualitätskontrolle für Backwaren - Google Patents

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EP1521055A2
EP1521055A2 EP04023444A EP04023444A EP1521055A2 EP 1521055 A2 EP1521055 A2 EP 1521055A2 EP 04023444 A EP04023444 A EP 04023444A EP 04023444 A EP04023444 A EP 04023444A EP 1521055 A2 EP1521055 A2 EP 1521055A2
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Olivier Somville
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  • the present invention relates to control techniques of quality involving digital image capture and processing signals obtained in image analysis as they can be applied in the industrial sector of the bakery. He is understands that this is the bakery industry in Canada. meaning that it is not limited to the manufacture of products constituting truly breads in the current diet and where she extends, for example, to all products which are more particularly pastries or biscuits.
  • the invention provides to proceed by visiometry. That is to say that she applies data acquisition techniques digital images and signal processing conveying these information that is in itself classic. It follows that will not be necessary to describe here these techniques for this they have known, since the peculiarities of their application in a context such as that of the bakery will be properly cleared.
  • the invention is expressed in several ways, mainly in terms of a process and those of a designed facility for the implementation of this method. It translates basically in the input mode in data acquisition digital images, in the analysis of the corresponding signals and in the material organ controls that are triggered automatically based on the result of this analysis.
  • the products or articles are deposited, without prior organization, but preferably simply spread by extension of a conveyor upstream designed for this purpose, tending to separate them others in the longitudinal conveying direction and / or in the transverse direction perpendicular to it, on a control conveyor which scrolls them through a system of visiometry where digital images are captured.
  • This visiometry system is equipped with all means necessary for an image capture which is double for each produced, to be sensitive to degrees of contrast between levels of gray of two orders of magnitude different.
  • Signal analysis translating the images thus collected is similarly two stages, which follow each other in time at a pace synchronized with the lighting conditions.
  • the results of the analysis are used to control the transfer from each product to an outlet or another, after a delay which is calculated in synchronism with the scroll speed of the products provided by the conveyor. It is admitted that the grip system of views is itself fixed, but of course, what matters is the relative displacement of products compared to the views, and this relative displacement during image capture could to be supported in whole or in part by the views. ,
  • the invention advantageously applies diagrams operations and means that are known in themselves, especially those described in the European patent EP 0 763 470 with regard to the marking of products or articles individual when they pass together in the field of vision a matrix camera that captures repetitive images and regarding the counting of articles with calculation of a surcharge to be done in order to group them into a predetermined number for packaging.
  • a sorting system that can advantageously be used in the context of the implementation of the invention, being a device described as "comb”, which has for function of retaining those articles that would come in excess and to let those who are needed to go through.
  • the invention provides for grasping successive images repeatedly by a camera matrix, set by itself or by the parameters of the associated signal processing conditions, for a alternating functioning with the one and the other of the two contrast degrees of different orders of magnitude.
  • image capture takes place in a first time while products are illuminated in a backlighting mode, that is, under back-projection lighting, advantageously through the conveyor belt of the conveyor, made translucent for this purpose.
  • Signals expressing the image of retroprojection thus acquired are subjected to a treatment of computer type based on the contrast due to the difference of brightness between the illuminated background of the image and the outline of the product to inside which the image pixels translate a stronger opacity.
  • the degree of contrast between the two gray levels is important.
  • the signal analysis retains as contour pixel each pixel where this contrast is at least equal to a threshold value predetermined. This gives a contour image of each product.
  • the The system makes measurements to verify whether the product meets predetermined dimensional requirements in ensuring that the dimensions in question are correctly located within ranges of predetermined values.
  • the product is assigned an attribute of compliant quality, otherwise, an attribute of non-compliance.
  • the length distance between those points of the product that are farthest from each other (which whatever the orientation of the product), on the other hand the width, which is defines in general, at the simplest for the applications of bakery, as being the distance between the extreme points of the contour on a straight line perpendicular to the crossing length this one in its middle.
  • the arrow is often added, reflecting the curvature of the midline of a product in length, in particular by the distance from the middle of the width of the previous measurement to the straight line joining the extreme points of the length.
  • This arrow will be for example that of a raw dough roll coming out of a spiral freezer, in which case the quality requirements will ask that this arrow does not exceed a threshold predetermined.
  • the gray levels to be distinguished are numerous and the precision sought is different from that to be chosen in the first stage. This is to examine the surface condition of each product considered according to variations in levels of gray appearing within the defined product outline during the first step. We then check whether state requirements predetermined surface are respected for the product to be declared compliant.
  • spots are by contrast degrees of predetermined value (or above a predetermined threshold value), where appropriate between gray levels in a range predetermined, are present or not, and if so, calculates their density, to compare it for example to a density nominal presence of seeds (sesame or other) imposed by the quality requirements.
  • the invention advantageously provides a treatment of signals obtained from the first captured image leading to define the outline of a predetermined geometric shape whose dimensions are automatically adapted to fit entirely within the contour of the product image identified in the first step.
  • the shape in question is that of an ellipse.
  • the large diameter of the ellipse is advantageously calculated from the length of the product, which will usually been determined in the first step, would it not be only to check if this length is correctly within a predetermined range (or close enough a predetermined nominal value).
  • the small diameter of the ellipse can be calculated from the value dimension that could have been attributed to the product as width in the first step.
  • the two values will be reduced in a proportion of the same order of magnitude between one and the other, to account for uncertainties always possible in the definition of the product outline. If necessary, the system will also be able to account of the value calculated as the arrow of the product in the case where it shows a certain curvature. Indeed it is in any case that the selected ellipse contour does not exceed limits of the product outline.
  • the analysis of the signals reflecting the contrast images obtained in the second stage leads to the determination of the density presence of contrast differences of determined values.
  • this density is determined on a single sample area, which can be chosen for example in the middle of the ellipse discussed above, or expand to all its surface. In other cases of application, it may be it is preferable to define several sample areas, all located at inside the same contour registering safely inside of the product outline, for example around each of the two centers of an elliptical outline.
  • the contrasts analysis makes it possible to highlight optically the sought-after brands both in the event that they are due to a difference in the color of the product itself, example depending on the degree of cooking, that when they are due to the surface geometry in variation of height.
  • the system of the invention can be parameterized to detect the presence of inadmissible cooking stains or that of more or less deep reliefs that will decide on the conformity or no of the product.
  • a single device can serve almost all the situations that we encounter in bakery from the moment it is capable, for example, of a sensitivity distinguishing 255 gray levels.
  • the sorting performed may take into account other criteria and carry out multiple orientations.
  • this detection can be carried out by magnetic means.
  • a positive result this detection triggers automatically, in the machine of implementation of the invention, the control of a tilting flap which send the corresponding defective products in a special tray, reserved for severely polluted products, whereas when the non-conforming character is deducted only after the operations visiometry, they will be directed to a container of products defective but not polluted by metallic elements.
  • the invention also translates particularities relating to the material means designed for carry out the operations that have just been exposed, so in terms of an installation or machine particularly adapted to the implementation of the method of the invention.
  • the rate of image capture is determined in conjunction with the speed of scrolling of the products imposed by the conveyor, but in agreement also with the requirements of computer processing signals to each image raised, so that the presence of each product is translate significantly in at least three images successive. It is thus ensured that in at least one of these three images, the product in question will be fully included in the field of view of the camera capturing the snapshot.
  • FIG. 1 as in the other figures, basically sees three conveyor belts getting successor to scroll through products through a system of visiometry according to the invention, between a manufacturing station and a packing station of compliant quality products which have not been represented neither.
  • a conveyor input 1, or feed conveyor, and an output conveyor 2 on either side of an intermediate conveyor 3 which constitutes the control conveyor itself, scrolling through the products 10 under an image capture camera 4.
  • the input conveyor 1 is illustrated in the form of a spreader conveyor, that is to say, it breaks down into a series of bands following closed loop synchronized paths endless between two rollers 12 and 13 while moving away progressively from each other when they pass from the roll 12 to the exit roller 13. In this way, products which are deposited contiguous or substantially such over the width of the conveyor at the entrance of the entrance conveyor meet again Laterally separated and individualized at its exit.
  • the output conveyor 2 which is no longer upstream but downstream of the intermediate conveyor 3, is located at a level slightly lower than this, and it is separated by a device who plays the role of a dispatcher 5.
  • This distributor 5 consists of a multitude of plates which, in a normal position, are all parallel side by side in the same plane, in an inclined position that guides the products directly from the intermediate conveyor 3 to the output conveyor 2.
  • the different plates can be ordered individually to switch, as illustrated for some of them bearing the reference 22 in Figure 2, about an axis of articulation located at the level of the upstream roll 23 of the exit conveyor. They then move upwards, thus freeing an empty space of plates through which products arriving there fall into a bin of defective products, such as any of the 25 and 26 visible bins in Figure 4.
  • the figures make appear, in addition to the camera for capturing or acquiring images 4 whose field of view 42 is illustrated in broken lines, a upper lighting device, illustrated by two neon tubes symmetrical 31 and 32, and a lower lighting device 33. last is advantageously of the same type as the device lighting, and it is sufficient that it is powered from the same power source but under a phase different to get synchronized lighting flashes in alternately.
  • a control of the camera 4 in synchronism one ensures operation of the visiometric system alternately in backlight mode and in direct light mode.
  • the band conveyor 35 of the intermediate conveyor 3 is a conveyor belt translucent.
  • the corresponding contrast analysis is set to be sensitive to the degrees of contrast existing between the background bright seen through translucent band and opaque areas internal to the outline of the different objects.
  • the treatment signals is set to distinguish different levels of gray with a higher definition, staying within the limits of what is seen on each product.
  • On the camera 4 are associated computer means of digital image data processing, which are controlled, according to whether the image data processed is that of an image obtained in backlight mode for contour analysis, or those of an image obtained in direct lighting mode for analysis surface, respectively in a first step for determine if an outline of each product detected for degrees of first order of magnitude complies with requirements predetermined dimensions, and in a second step to determine whether a surface condition examined within an area sample determined to have a predetermined shape to from the contour dimensional data of the first step, meets predetermined surface requirements resulting in contrast levels of a second order of magnitude.
  • the conveyor belt 35 of the conveyor intermediate passes, like the others, around an upstream roll 36 and a downstream roll 37, but, in addition, around two rollers Appendices 38 and 39, which are mobile to be more or less excluded from each other in the longitudinal conveying direction. Their relative displacement is placed under the control of signals resulting from the processing circuit in image analysis.
  • the system controls a spacing of the two mobile auxiliary rollers 38 and 39 which causes a withdrawal to the rear of the downstream roll 37, due a lengthening of the circuit of the endless band between the rollers annexes.
  • the downstream roll 37 is itself mounted mobile in longitudinal translation at its axis of rotation. Its withdrawal to the rear distances the exit of the conveyor from the distributor 5. It is then all products arriving at the same time at the exit of the conveyor which falls in the tank of defective products.
  • Figure 3 which illustrates this situation, assumes the presence a single tray of defective products.
  • the situation is the same in the case of Figure 2, except that in the latter, the rejection of a defective product does not occur over the entire width of the band but only at the level of the 22 plates that were tilted to the raised position.
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 there are two bins of defective products, and the dispatcher system is completed by a flap 27, which is mounted tilting about an axis of articulation provided in the transverse direction of the conveyor line between two.
  • This tilting flap is unique on the conveying width. he is associated with a magnetic ring 41 which is sensitive to presence of metallic elements in pollution in the products, that either in the dough of these or that it is next to them in parallel.
  • metallic elements constitute elements pollutants that render non-consumable products that contain.
  • the metal pollution detection system is arranged upstream of the visiometry system. It has priority to order the evacuation of the products towards the tank of polluted products. it provides a positive answer testifying to the presence of a metal pollution, this automatically triggers the tilting flap 27 at the desired time to short-circuit the evacuation of non-compliant products which would otherwise be to bin 27, reserved for non-compliant but healthy products and acceptable as second quality products or even products intended for animal feed.
  • Figure 5 illustrates that in the case of the machine described, rather than controlling the switchover of all distributor plates 5 at the same time as that of part 27, the system controls a withdrawal of the downstream roll of the conveyor from similar to that illustrated in Figure 3.
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